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I see no reason for recording the obvious.

Edward Weston

To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism… This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation – not interpretation.
EDWARD WESTON

Essential Fog Rocks
No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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Cameras Photographer Simplest
The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer’s understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.
EDWARD WESTON

Important Photography Understanding
I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.
EDWARD WESTON

Form Pulse Reason
I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
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Lenses Photography Want
My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.
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Photographer Photography Program
To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
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Mean Photographer Photography
I see no reason for recording the obvious.
EDWARD WESTON

Photographer Photography Reason
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera’s eye may entirely change my idea, even switch me to different subject matter. So I start out with my mind as free from image as the silver film on which I am to record, and I hope as sensitive.
EDWARD WESTON

Eye Ideas Matter Mind Switch
Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
EDWARD WESTON

Car Photography Yards
Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.
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Makers Results Way
It’s hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.
EDWARD WESTON

Artist Cameras Telling Truth
I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
EDWARD WESTON

Approach Theory
If I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
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Cutting Giving Photography
The great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
EDWARD WESTON

Artist Facts Thinking
Art is based on order. The world is full of ‘sloppy Bohemians’ and their work betrays them.
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Art Order World

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

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